We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.Gerald Brenan
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying ourselves.
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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
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